So good news: There's a chapter break basically in the middle of a scene and the last chapter isn't numbered. So the actual final chapter is 23! You get two more full chapters!
Also I'm going to break up the three separate bonus epilogue chapters into 23.5 .6 and .7 since they're wildly...
I like that she's an entirely realistic disturbance. A random person from work would feel super contrived, but the convenience store worker recognizing the two regulars is very sensible.
Knowing how Zurikishi can be sometimes, I wouldn't be surprised if their little declaration to the status quo isn't instantly undercut and they find out in the next chapter or two but some new weird complication keeps things from progressing. Then we get half the volume dedicated to Reina...
Makoto did nothing wrong! She shouldn't hold herself responsible for not reading Risato's feelings when she was explicitly hiding them.
That being said, I can understand replaying that scene in your head constantly for 7 years and imagining some scenario where you managed to fix everything and...
Well... compared to raising the dead, or swapping in mechanical body parts, or destroying the earth, or leaving the comic to enter the real world and torment her creator... drinking soy sauce seems a little quaint.
Also...The low sodium variety goes down pretty smooth.